[jeffheard]

I preordered Starlink in March of 2021, as soon as my first rural isp reneged on 50 megabits and sold me 5. 2 years later in western Virginia I still have no eta for my order and cannot contact anyone about it. I have 12 megabits from that same local ISP and it’s enough to do my job so I cancelled Starlink. I can’t imagine what customer service will be like if I am on preorder for two years and they refuse to give any update other than kicking the can down the road every time the estimated delivery date gets close. When I canceled my estimate was “early 2024”.

[londons_explore]

I think starlink is deliberately not rolling out any more locations in the USA till their dispute with the FCC about the rural broadband money is sorted out.

They don't want to deploy early, because then they wouldn't be eligible for the funding which is supposed to help them deploy.

Notice that just over the canada and mexico borders have good service available today - suggesting bandwidth isn't the constraint.

[fundad]

That sweet government money!

[londons_explore]

It was $1B that they were expected to get... Thats substantially more revenue than they were going to collect from all their US based users in a whole year!

[fundad]

His companies are quintessential products of the money printer and low interest Musk has said says as much when he blames his performance on the fed rate rises. For a luxury car company, of all things.